Following is a listing of presentations, publications and accomplishments submitted by UCA faculty and staff during the summer term:Patty Phelps, Department of Middle/Secondary Education and Instructional Technologies, visited in May Kappa Delta Pi?s headquarters in Indianapolis, Ind., where she participated in a transition/training meeting to complete her three-year service as academic editor of The Record, the organization’s refereed journal.
Kappa Delta Pi is an international honor society in education with over 60,000 members. The organization presented Phelps with a recognition and appreciation plaque for her professional service to the organization.
Scott Austin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, was notified that his proposal seeking observing time on the Hobby-Eberly 9.1-m telescope was approved. The goal of the observation is to obtain spectra in order to verify that HH95-79 (Henden & Honeycutt 1995) is a thermally-decoupled short-period late-type contact binary. According to Austin?s proposal, without the spectral data we will be unable to test our hypothesis that this is indeed a thermally-decoupled system, whose existence is in question.
Nelda New and Rebecca Lancaster, Department of Nursing, co-authored with a graduate students a paper titled, ?Pediatric Obesity: Use a team approach,? which was accepted for publication in Clinical Advisor.
Jonathan A. Glenn, Provost?s Office, presented “Gilbert Hay Translates the Commons: A Word Study” at the 2005 Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature held at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. In addition, the second volume of Glenn’s edition of Hay’s prose works has been published by the Scottish Text Society (Edinburgh, 2005); a final volume is expected in the project. Glenn’s “The Manuscript History of Sir Gilbert Hay’s Buke of the Law of Armys” appeared in Older Scots Literature, ed. Sally Mapstone (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2005).
Mary Sue Passe-Smith, Department of Geography, presented a paper titled “Test-Driving a Tornado Likelihood Model” in July at the 25th Annual ESRI International Users Conference for Geographic Information System professionals in San Diego, Calif. The paper is also to be published online at ESRI’s professional paper site.
James W. Brodman, Department of History, was appointed in April to the Council of the Medieval Academy of America?s Committee on Electronic Resources for a term to expire in 2008. The Committee on Electronic Resources, formed in 1994, advises the Academy on the uses of electronic technology in research, pedagogy and the functions of the Academy. The Medieval Academy, founded in 1925 and now with 4,342 members, is the largest organization in the world devoted to Medieval Studies.
Brooks Pearson, Department of Geography, has recently had two articles published: “Comparative Accuracy in Four Civil War Maps of the Shenandoah Valley: A GIS Analysis.” Vol. 57, No. 1 (August 2005): 376 – 394; and “James W. Abert (1820 – 1897): Artists, Naturalist, Land Developer, and Topographical Engineer.” Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2005): 2 – 16.
Garry Craig Powell, Department of Writing and Speech, was recently notified that he will receive the Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship for Fiction (Short Stories) during a ceremony at the Peabody in Little Rock on Oct. 18.
